Health, Illness and Culture : Broken Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780415988742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 196 str.

Lars-Christer Hyden;Jens Brockmeier

Opis

This collection of essays by internationally established researchers examines the interrelations between illness, disability, health, society, and culture as well as how "narratives" have emerged and been utilized within these areas. The contributors examine the various forms and aspects of broken narratives, a term which is used to describe narratives from people who in one way or another have trouble telling stories at all – be it due to injury disability, dementia, pain, grief, or psychological trauma. This book offers a broad overview and critical analysis of the present state of the field of "illness narratives," encompassing clinical case studies, ethnographic field studies and autobiographical case studies. The book will be of interest to those within health, medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, sociolinguistics, discourse and narrative studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: From the Retold to the Performed Story  Lars-Christer Hydén and Jens Brockmeier  2. Language, Experience, and the “Traumatic Gap”: How to Talk About 9/11?  Jens Brockmeier  3. Broken and Vicarious Voices in Narratives  Lars-Christer Hydén  4. Talking About the Unthinkable: Neurotrauma and the “Catastrophic Reaction”  Maria I. Medved & Jens Brockmeier  5. Stories That Are Ready to Break  Cheryl Mattingly  6. Globally Distributed Silences, and Broken Narratives about HIV  Georg Drakos  7. Taking Care of the Dead: Broken Narratives of Internment  Arthur W. Frank  8. “You Have to Ask a Little”: Troublesome Storytelling about Contested Illness  Pia Bülow  9. Break-Up Narratives  Margareta Hydén  10. Beyond Narrative: Dementia’s Tragic Promise  Mark Freeman.  Contributors.  Index.

O autorze

Lars-Christer Hydén is Professor of Health Communication at Linköping University, Sweden. His main focus is on the role of narrative in the cultural interplay of illness and health.

Jens Brockmeier, a Senior Researcher at Free University Berlin, Germany, is a Visiting Professor in the Psychology Department of the University of Manitoba, Canada, and at the Center for Narrative Research of the University of East London's School of Social Science, Media, and Cultural Science.